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 May 16, 2008 iW NEWS | Karlovy Vary To Open With "Guitar"
The 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will open on July 4, 2008, with the international premiere Amy Redford's "The Guitar." "Guitar," Redford's directorial debut, played at Sundance and follows the story of a woman who is diagnosed with terminal cancer, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend all in the same morning. The festival will close with the world premiere of Tom Thurman's docu-portrait "Nick Nolte: No Exit." The film sternly analyzes actor Nolte, as well as interviewing Ben Stiller, Jacqueline Bisset, Patricia Arquette and Alan Rudolph. Nolte himself will attend the screening. The festival will additionally feature 40 World, International, and European premieres and over 200 Czech premieres. It runs through July 12,2008. [Peter Knegt]  [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] May 15, 2008iW NEWS | Brooklyn Fest Announces "Cinergy-11"
The Brooklyn International Film Festival announced the line up for its 11th annual festivals, themed "Cinergy." The event will run from May 30, 2008 to June 8, 2008, with films showing at both the Brooklyn Lyceum Theater and the Brooklyn Heights Cinema. Highlights include the US Premiere of Paul Kirk's "Able Danger," Austin Chick's "August," Judson Pearce Morgan and Kelly Overton's "The Collective," Tao Ruspoli's "The Fix," and David Modigliani's "Crawford." The festival will award the winners with prizes totaling over $80,000 in film services, products and cash. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] May 14, 2008Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund Announces Recipients
The Rotterdam Film Festival's Hubert Bals Fund announced its financial contributions to 27 projects with filmmakers from 17 countries. The Fund's goal is to aid innovative talents closer to completing their projects and acting as a seal of approval to attract further investors. Of the 27 selected is Pablo Larrain's "Tony Manero," screening at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, as well as Edwin's "The Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly" and Matias Meyer's second feature to follow his previous success "Wadley." Supporting digital film projects since 2006, Phillipines' Lav Diaz is also receiving support from the Fund, as are four other digital projects. For more information, please visit http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com. [Jenny Sung/IndieWIRE] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] May 13, 2008AFP: Some like it hot! Cannes' caviar n' champ
The Cannes Film Festival opens officially to red-carpet glory on Wednesday but already the whining about the steep prices enforced for the yearly global invasion of stars and celluloid has begun. Pierre Pratabuy herereports. [permalink] [ filed under Cannes, Festivals ] May 12, 2008LAT | FIRST LOOK: Cannes colors "Blindness"
If eyes are the window to the soul, then Cannes Film Festival organizers' choice of "Blindness" as the opening night film promises a 24-frames-per-second allegory about the fragile state of civil society and the human spirit. Sheigh Crabtree reports with a trailer sneak peak. [permalink] [ filed under Cannes, Festivals ] AFP: The year that shook Cannes
A year of revolt the world over, tumultuous 1968 also brought high drama to Cannes, the single time the film festival had to be cut short, with no one taking home a prize and no red-carpet finale. Claire Rosemberg herereports. [permalink] [ filed under Cannes, Festivals ] Reuters: Cannes pits Hollywood against obscure arthouse
Hollywood legends and obscure arthouse directors descend on Cannes from Wednesday for the world's biggest film festival that combines edgy cinema with A-list celebrities, glitzy parties and frenetic deal-making. Mike Collett-White [permalink] [ filed under Cannes, Festivals ] iW NEWS | Provincetown Celebrates 10 Years With Garcia Bernal
The 10th Annual Provincetown International Film Festival announced some of its programming and its annual honorary awards Monday, with Gael Garcia Bernal taking the Excellence in Acting Award and Jane Lynch receiving the Faith Hubley Memorial Award. As previously announced, Quentin Tarantino will be awarded the Filmmaker of The Edge Award. All previous winners of that award have been invited back to participate in the 10th anniversary celebration, including John Waters, Christine Vachon, Ted Hope, James Schamus, Gus Van Sant, Todd Haynes, Jim Jarmusch, Mary Harron, Gregg Araki and Todd Solondz. The festival will open with Madonna's "Filth and Wisdom" and close with Clark Gregg's "Choke." The centerpiece selections will be Alan Ball's "Towelhead" and James Marsh's "Man on Wire." [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] May 11, 2008iW NEWS | Edinburgh Film Fest Announces Slate
The Edinburgh International Film Festival announced its programming for its 62nd edition this week. This year the Festival, which runs from 18 - 29 June, will host fifteen World premieres including the previously announced Opening Night Gala, John Maybury's "The Edge of Love," while the Closing Night Gala will be the World premiere of "Faithheart," a comedy by Vito Rocco. The Festival will showcase 142 feature-length films from 29 countries, including 15 World premieres. Highlights include new Pixar release "Wall-E" screening as the Family Gala; Shane Meadows' "Somers Town" and Duane Hopkins' "Better Things" both in the British Gala section; Brad Anderson's "Transsiberian" and Isabel Coixet's "Elegy" both screening in the Gala section. The festival runs June 18-29, 2007. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] May 8, 2008iW NEWS | Oberhausen Shorts Fest Announces Winners
The 54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen was held May 1-6, 2008 in Oberhausen, Germany, and handed out awards Tuesday night at the Lichtburg Filmpalast. The Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen, handed out by the international jury and worth 7,500 euros, went to Australian Dennis Tupicoff's "Chainsaw," for "its masterful synthesis of social commentary, formal experimentation, and its exploration of bareback riding both within the rodeo arena and beyond." The two Principal Prizes, worth 3,500 euros each, went to Romanian Radu Jude's "Alexandra" and Russian Alina Rudnitskaya's "Kak stat stervoi" ("Vixen Academy"). The Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia gave its prize for regional work to Belgian director Alexia Bonta's "Parlez-moi d'amou" ("Tell Me About Love"), while the FIPRESCI Prize (International Critic's Prize) went to Russian Pavel Medvedev's "Nezrimoe" ("The Unseen"). [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] iW NEWS | Salmona Wins New Director's Prize in San Francisco
iAt the San Francisco International Film Festival yesterday, Mushon Salmona's "Vasermil" won the New Director's Award, while Yung Chang's "Up The Yangtze" won the prize for best documentary feature. Dawn Logsdon's "Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans" won the Bay Area Documentary Feature prize and Todd Herman's "Cabinet" won the Bay Area short prize and the New Visions prize. Christina A. Voros' "The Ladies" won the documentary short prize and Jean-Bernard Marlin & Benoit Rambourg "Thick Skinned" won the narrative short award, Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski won the animated short film prize for "Madame Tutli-Putli." [Eugene Hernandez] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] May 7, 2008iW NEWS | Cannes Classics Set For Fifth Year
The Cannes Film Festival will spotlight classic films on rediscovered or restored masterworks or films that have been re-released in theaters or DVD with the Cannes Classics 2008 program. Presented at the Palais des Festival, the Cinema de la Plage and the La Licorne Theatre, the program includes a tribute to Manoel de Oliveira for his 100th birthday, featuring a screening of one of his first films, 1931's "Douro, Faina Fluvial," as well as Wong Kar Wai presenting "Ashes of Time Redux." Overall, the program features dozens of films, including a new or restored prints of Marcel Ophuls' 1955 film "Lola Montes," Vijay Anand's 1965 film "Guide," Paul Newman's 1972 film "Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," Bruce Weber's 1988 film "Let's Get Lost," Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1989 film "Santa Sangre," Jean Cocteau's 1949 film "Orphee," James Toback's 1977 film "Fingers," Lester James Peries' 1965 film "Gamperaliya," and Ben Maddow, Syndey Meyers and Joseph Strick's 1960 collaboration "The Savage Eye." Two new films will also be presented in the Documentaries About Cinema section: James Cressanthis's "No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos," which follows the journey and friendship of Hungarian directors Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, and Richard Schickel's documentary about the history of Warner Brothers, "You Must Remember This," which will be accompanied by 10 screenings of classic Warner films, including a one-off "Looney Tunes." [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Cannes, Festivals ] iW NEWS | Critics Week Takes on "Poverty"
Philippe Diaz's "The End of Poverty?" has been added to Critics Week as part of the fest's "Cinema & Politics" day on May 19. Narrated by Martin Sheen, Diaz's ("Now & Later") doc explores whether the "true causes of povery today" stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times in which wealthy nations exploit the poor. Filmed in high definition in countries in Europe, Africa and South America, the film features economists, politicians and people engaged in social movements. Following its screening, Diaz and figures from the film will participate in a panel discussion. [Brian Brooks] [permalink] [ filed under Cannes, Festivals ] iW NEWS | Locarno to Honor Producer Christine Vachon at Fest
Producer Christine Vachon of Killer Films will be awarded the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize at the 61st Locarno International Film Festival, taking place August 6 - 16. Through her production company, founded in 1995, Vachon has helped launch the careers of filmmakers such as Larry Clark ("Kids," 1995) and John Cameron Mitchell ("Hedwig and the Angry Inch," 2001) in addition to working with established directors such as Robert Altman ("The Company," 2003) and John Waters ("A Dirty Shame," 2004). "Locarno is celebrating an exceptional producer, who has made a decisive contribution to independent American cinema over the last fifteen years," commented Locarno's artistic director Frederic Maire in a statement. The award began in 2002 in memory of the man who was president of the Locarno Festival for almost twenty years. [Brian Brooks] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] May 6, 2008iW NEWS | "Tru Loved" and "World" to Bookend 20th NewFest
Stewart Wade's romantic comedy "Tru Loved" will open the 20th NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, taking place June 5 - 15. Closing the event is Tom Gustafson's "Were the World Mine." "Especially in a milestone year such as this, we want to bring NYC an even better LGBT film festival than the year before," commented NewFest artistic director Basil Tsiokos in a statement. "Along with an extremely strong lineup of films and panels, we're offering a few brand new special additions to our programming. This year introduces the John Outcalt NewFest Lounge where audiences and filmmakers alike can relax between screenings." The NewFest Lounge will be located at the HK Lounge on Ninth Avenue at 39th Street in Manhattan. [Brian Brooks] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Queer Cinema ] SF360: Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night
You know a film festival is beginning to work its way into your brain when, in a landscape of intersecting ideas, you begin to witness the collisions. The diners at S.F. Film Society Awards Night this past Thursday -- including Warren Beatty, Jerry Brown, Willie Brown, Maria Bello, John Burton and Dede Wilsey-- saw a mash-up of two opposing approaches to the art of great filmmaking in awards to Mike Leigh and Robert Towne. Susan Gerhard reports. [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] iW NEWS | "Heaven," "Chris & Don" Top Miami Gay & Lesbian Winners
The 10th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival closed for business, announcing a series of juried and audience awards presented at the Gala Closing night party at the Miami Art Space. Fatih Akin's "The Edge of Heaven" won the jury's fiction feature award, while Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's "Chris & Don: A Love Story" won the juried documentary award. Audience awards were handed out to Shamim Sarifis's "The World Unseen" for favorite feature, Scott Bloom's "Call Me Troy" for documentary, and Jesse Peretz's "Who I Am" for short. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Honors, Queer Cinema ] The Week in Fests | Rome, Cairo and Sydney
The latest from the festival scene this week. A link exchange by Variety.com and indieWIRE.
DIRECTORS BACK ROME FILM FESTIVAL
'AAL GAZIRA', 'HEENA' WIN IN CAIRO
LEIGH'S 'HAPPY' TO PLAY IN SYDNEY
More at Variety's Festival Central
May 5, 2008iW NEWS | Marche du Film Sees Rise in Attendance
As of April 15th, more than 8,000 professionals from 93 countries already confirmed their participation in the Marche du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, an 8% rise from 2007 and 40% since 2003. In response to a significant screenings demand, 3 new screening rooms will complete the 30 existing ones, with an overall of 12 digital screening rooms. The Marche will be ready to host the 1,600 screenings already booked for the 2008 edition. Additionally, about 300 companies will showcase their productions on more than 6,000 square meters of exhibiting surface. About 120 exhibitors will be present in hotels or flats on the Croisette. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Cannes, Festivals ] May 2, 2008Reuters: New mayor to tone down glitz at Rome film festival
Expect less Hollywood glamour and more home-grown cinema at the Rome Film Festival -- the new right-wing mayor of Italy's capital has made clear he wants to see changes at the movie showcase created by his predecessor. Reuters reports. 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